Health Care
Republicans in U.S. call for health-care reform replacement
March 27, 2010U.S. Republicans are calling for President Obama's health-care reform package to be "repealed and replaced," after the final details were approved Thursday. In the Republican's weekly Saturday address, the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell...
U.S. Senate passes health care 'fixes,' returns package to House
March 25, 2010By Paula Wolfson The U.S. Congress is wrapping up work on legislation to fix problems with the health care reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday. The Senate approved the corrections measure along party lines on Thursday and sent...
Senate Republicans succeeded to return health care bill to the House for another vote
March 25, 2010The Republican Party (GOP) in the United States are using every parliamentary tool available to undermine the recently enacted health care law which they unanimously opposed both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. The GOP launched its...
US health care reform faces final hurdle
March 24, 2010The focus of U.S. health-care reform now shifts to the Senate, where members are debating a package of revisions, or fixes, to a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday. Senators are considering legislation that the House of Representatives...
CNN video: Biden's F-Bomb, 'foot in his mouth' again...
March 24, 2010U.S. Vice President Joe Biden drops the f-bomb over an open microphone. Biden had just finished introducing President Barack Obama at the health care bill-signing ceremony Tuesday for a massive health insurance overhaul, when he leaned over to share...
US President Obama signs health care reform into law
March 24, 2010By Kent Klein Measure intends to extend health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans currently without it U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law a plan to reform the way Americans pay for health care. The signing follows a contentious...
U.S. lawmakers pass health-care reform, sharp disagreements of conservatives
March 22, 2010U.S. President Barack Obama has achieved a landmark victory of his presidency in securing passage of a health care reform bill through the House of Representatives. Extending health insurance to tens of millions of Americans who until now were outside...
Obama to sign major health care bill (video)
March 22, 2010By Paula Wolfson Health care reform has cleared the U.S. Congress after roughly a year of legislative drama on Capitol Hill. The House of Representatives passed the necessary legislation, on a tight, party-line vote, handing President Barack Obama a...
US House approves landmark health care legislation
March 22, 2010The U.S. House of Representatives approved landmark legislation to reform the health care insurance system in the United States Sunday evening, with Democrats pushing through President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. No Republicans supported the...
US Capitol: Health care vote prompts slurs, spitting from protesters
March 21, 2010Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the U.S. Capitol and in congressional office buildings Saturday, shouting against proposed health care legislation. Two African American congressmen, Andre Carson of Indiana and John Lewis from Georgia, were subjected...